WREN: Everything ok?
SAM: My fancy-pants writing workshop is a total bust! No one will say anything about my work except that fantasy isn’t worth writing!
WREN: What, seriously?

SAM: Yes! They’re all pompous asshats who want to write very literary pseudo-experimental novels about straight white middle-class twenty-somethings finding their place in the world, and live off the money they get from selling the movie rights.

SAM: But SOMEHOW magic and faeries are beyond their suspension of disbelief!